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=== Macedonian political crisis === {{See also|2011 Macedonian protests|2015 Macedonian protests|2016 Macedonian protests|2017 storming of Macedonian Parliament}} In the 2010s and the 2020s, Georgievski criticised the party several times, seeing it as a personal failure and a fake party without any ideology, etc.<ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite web |title=Георгиевски: Ако обичаме Македония, трябва да учим албански |url=https://www.actualno.com/world/georgievski-ako-obichame-makedonija-trjabva-da-uchim-albanski-news_407258.html |date=19 November 2012 |website=Actualno.com |language=bg}} |2={{cite web |url=https://www.slobodnaevropa.mk/a/26809481.html |website=Radio Free Europe |date=23 January 2015 |author=Marija Mitevska Марија |title=Србизација на Македонија? |language=mk}} |3={{cite web |title=Скопие осъмна с билборд срещу сръбската асимилация |url=https://www.actualno.com/balkani/skopie-osymna-s-bilbord-sreshtu-srybskata-asimilacija-news_454576.html |website=Actualno.com |date=3 February 2015 |language=bg}} |4={{cite web |title=Љубчо Георгиевски:Во Македонија се крие дека Делчев бил бугарски учител – Жртвите за самостојна Македонија ги правиме предавници, а удбашите херои |url=https://infomax.mk/љубчо-георгиевскиво-македонија-се-кр/ |date=6 May 2022 |website=Infomax |language=mk}} |5={{cite web |title=Љубчо Георгиевски му одговоpи на Бориc Стојменов – кажа сè што мисли за него |url=https://info7.news/2022/11/01/lubcho-georgievski-mu-odgovori-na-boris-stojmenov-kazha-se-shto-misli-za-nego/ |website=info7NEWS |date=1 November 2022 |language=mk}}}}</ref> The party opposed the Friendship Treaty with Bulgaria in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=CC of VMRO-DPMNE: We will not support the agreement with Bulgaria in Parliament |url=https://meta.mk/en/cc-of-vmro-dpmne-we-will-not-support-the-agreement-with-bulgaria-in-parliament/ |website=Meta.mk |date=30 July 2017}}</ref> As a result of the political crisis, the political parties signed the [[Pržino Agreement]], which also resulted in the resignation of Gruevski in January 2016.<ref>{{cite book |editor1=Otto Eibl |editor2=Miloš Gregor |title=Thirty Years of Political Campaigning in Central and Eastern Europe |date=2019 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=9783030276935 |pages=263–264}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1=Robert Hudson |editor2=Ivan Dodovski |title=Macedonia's Long Transition: From Independence to the Prespa Agreement and Beyond |date=2023 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=9783031207730 |pages=32–34}}</ref> VMRO-DPMNE was widely accused of nepotism and authoritarianism and was involved in a series of wiretapping, corruption and money-laundering scandals, with the Macedonian Special Prosecution ordering in 2017 a series of investigations against the party's former leader and ex-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, as well as ministers and other high-ranked officials, for involvement in illegal activities. In 2018, amid ongoing investigations, a Skopje court froze the party's property assets.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/court-freezes-macedonian-opposition-s-real-estate-11-01-2018| title=Court Freezes Macedonian Opposition's Property Assets|date=1 November 2018|access-date=13 November 2018}}</ref> Gruevski himself was sentenced to two years in prison for the illegal purchase of a Mercedes car in 2018 but [[fugitive|fled]] to Hungary when he was ordered to serve his prison sentence.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nikola Gruevski: Former North Macedonia Prime Minister given fifth prison sentence |url=https://www.euronews.com/2022/06/08/nikola-gruevski-former-north-macedonia-prime-minister-given-fifth-prison-sentence |website=Euronews |date=8 June 2022}}</ref> Nevertheless, he remained an honorary chairman of the party until July 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|last=EWB|date=22 July 2020|title=Gruevski no longer honorary president of VMRO-DPMNE|url=https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/2020/07/22/gruevski-no-longer-honorary-president-of-vmro-dpmne/|access-date=28 July 2020|website=European Western Balkans|language=en-US}}</ref> On 8 October 2018, [[Gordana Jankulovska]], the former Minister of Interior and senior member of the party, was sentenced to six years in prison for illegally purchasing the Mercedes, which Gruevski had used secretly.<ref>{{cite web |title=Macedonia Court Jails Ex-Interior Minister For Six Years |url=https://balkaninsight.com/2018/10/08/macedonia-court-gives-former-interior-minister-six-year-sentence-10-08-2018/ |website=Balkan Insight |date=8 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos |title=The Irregular Pendulum of Democracy: Populism, Clientelism and Corruption in Post-Yugoslav Successor States |date=2023 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=9783031256097 |page=212}}</ref>
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